Google is trying to save users from the back-click button, by giving them the option to see a visual preview of the page they are thinking of clicking on.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/google-instant-previews/
Worldometers: World Statistics in Real Time
Worldometers is part of the Real Time Statistics Project, which is managed by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience
The Things You Need To Know When Buying A New Hard Drive
Your computer’s hard drive is its only form of long-term storage. Music, photos, documents, games – it all goes on your hard drive. If you’re running out of hard drive space it’s only a matter of time before you need
Eight Reasons An Innovative Educator Uses Twitter
An interesting article on why teachers should consider using Twitter.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/09/five-reasons-innovative-educator-uses.html
Use Microsoft Word as a WYSIWYG Editor for Wikis
If you have ever tried editing a page on Wikipedia or any other Wiki based website, you know how different the formatting syntax is – more so when you are used to working with rich-text editors like Microsoft Word or
VoiceBase: Transcribe Audio To Text Automatically Online
Lecturers and speakers often record their presentation’s audio and appoint somebody to transcribe it. By converting the audio into text files, the audio can be made searchable on the web, making it easier for others to find. A web service
Defined or Denied? 21st Century Students in Today’s Classrooms
Interesting look at replacements to Bloom’s taxonomy and 21st century learning. “Although it pains us (teachers) to reduce children to a grade or score, it’s currently how our system functions and there are many ways to deemphasize grades and focus
… SimpleDiagrams: Cool Diagram Drawing Software
Online you will find many programs that help you create flowcharts and diagrams. But most of them come with a hefty price tag and are not suitable for people who want to make only basic diagrams. For those simple diagrams,
How To Search & Credit Properly-Licensed Photos On Flickr
This article attempts to make it clearer for everyone which Flickr photos are allowed to re-use and how to easily find and credit them. Anyone who has a blog may have used images published on Flickr but not everyone knows
Create Audio Slideshows With Shwup
Shwup is a new service for creating videos based on your images and audio files. At its most basic Shwup is a place for creating collaborative private photo albums. As the creator of an album you can select the best
Meshin: A Semantic Search Engine For Your E-Mails
Sorting, searching, and making sense through thousands of e-mails can be very messy. Even if powerful e-mail clients today like GMail and Outlook can handle being your conversation assistant, you still end up spending more time searching past e-mails to
Professors Shore Up Wikipedia Entries on Public Policy
Professors at nine universities are enlisting their students to update Wikipedia entries on public policy after a request from the Public Policy Initiative of the Wikimedia Foundation. Students will write and publish articles and edit existing Wikipedia entries. The test
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DawsonITE: The Anatomy of a Referred Site
An article about DawonITE on ProfWeb
http://www.profweb.qc.ca/en/news/columns/the-anatomy-of-a-referred-site/index.html
Lessons for Digital Natives
Digitally ‘native’ children are not digitally ‘literate’ – they just accept digital technologies as part of their everyday lives, argues ICT teacher Tristan Ashman. So how, he asks, can teachers meet pupils’ expectations?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/classroom-innovation/lessons-for-digital-natives